The World’s Trilogy (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Joe Haldeman
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—post-holocaust
- Time of Work: The twenty-first and twenty-second centuries
- Setting: Earth and habitats in space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Colonies or colonization, Future, Other worlds, Twenty-first century, Earth, Refugees, Artificial intelligence, Plague
- Locales: Space, Earth
The Plot
This trilogy is Joe Haldeman’s only serial work to date. It is a marvelous extended meditation on the United States and that country’s founding, flaws, and errand. Haldeman’s sense of the protagonist Marianne O’Hara began with a short story titled “If I Had the Wings of an Angel,” published in 1991, as Haldeman finished the trilogy, but written earlier.
Worlds is a biographical, often epistolary text set in 2080. It introduces the young Marianne O’Hara, a citizen of New New York, one of the asteroid “Worlds” near Earth. O’Hara’s...
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